Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott are a dangerous threat to the security of this great nation

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Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott at the Labour Party conferenceCredit:
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The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens, whether the threat is a domestic one or from abroad. This seems to be something that Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party have yet to grasp.

Alarmingly, this week new footage has emerged of Mr Corbyn condemning the very weapons that the UK uses in the fight against Isis as an “obscenity” – in a rally actually outside an RAF base. Mr Corbyn plainly states that he would get rid of drones altogether – apparently ignoring the vital role they play in giving us a capability for targeted strikes against Isis and al-Qaeda jihadis, as well as crucial intelligence-gathering.

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